{"id":491534,"date":"2026-06-09T23:48:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T23:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/491534\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T23:48:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T23:48:21","slug":"the-kidnapping-of-arabella-trailer-carolina-cavallis-new-comedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/491534\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The Kidnapping of Arabella’ Trailer: Carolina Cavalli’s New Comedy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Carolina Cavalli, the Italian director behind the critically acclaimed and very funny Gen Z deadpan comedy \u201cAmanda<\/a>,\u201d returns with another uniquely hilarious movie about youth. But this time, she has Chris Pine in the cast. \u201cThe Kidnapping of Arabella<\/a>\u201d premiered in the Horizons section of the 2025 Venice Film<\/a> Festival, where Benedetta Porcaroli won the Best Actress prize; she plays a woman who has a fateful encounter with a small child, played by Lucrezia Guglielmino. IndieWire debuts the trailer exclusively below ahead of its July 2026 release.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the official synopsis courtesy of the distributor: \u201cHolly spends days at her dead-end job fantasizing about holes in the space-time continuum and wondering where her life went wrong. When she meets Arabella, an eight-year-old rebel hoping to run away from her self-absorbed author father, Holly becomes convinced their meeting is a cosmic sign, and that Arabella is, in fact, her past self sent back for a second chance. The two embark on an unconventional road trip between two lost souls who might be exactly what the other needs.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Behind<\/a> \"Sara<\/a> <\/p>\n

\u201cThe story of \u2018Il Rapimento di Arabella\u2019 isn\u2019t really about a kidnapping in the usual sense, despite what the title suggests,\u201d the filmmaker said in a statement. \u201cIt\u2019s mostly about a girl finding her own way to fix the past, make peace with regrets, quiet anxiety about the future, and let go of unmet expectations. The main character, Holly, belongs to a group of people \u2014 or perhaps a generation \u2014 afraid that life is always happening somewhere else. Like when we were children, imagining a thousand possible lives, even though we only live one. But thinking like that as adults devalues reality; it distracts from the world, its meaning, its beauty, its injustices, and our own role in it all. Although \u2018Il Rapimento di Arabella\u2019 feels somewhat like a comedy, it began with serious reflections I found on Reddit and other online forums, as well as everyday feelings of my own. That\u2019s why I wrote this story \u2014 it seemed like something many people could relate to, or at least recognize.\u201d<\/p>\n

Oscilloscope Laboratories opens \u201cThe Kidnapping of Arabella\u201d in select theaters starting Friday, July 17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carolina Cavalli, the Italian director behind the critically acclaimed and very funny Gen Z deadpan comedy \u201cAmanda,\u201d returns…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":491535,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[93,1043,61,60,270,211140,12541],"class_list":["post-491534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-film","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-movies","tag-the-kidnapping-of-arabella","tag-trailers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}